Hagatna, Guam: A commitment by the Pacific arm of Continental Airlines to its Pacific hub on Guam is expected to further expand the Japanese tourist market for the US territory.

Manila, Philippines: The Philippines Government says it expects to supply about 20,000 workers to Guam when construction on a new United States military base begins.

Houston, USA: Continental Airlines today announced new service from its Guam hub and Honolulu to Nadi, Fiji beginning 18 December 2009.

Hagatna, Guam: An Australian low-cost airline, Jetstar, says a plane that made an emergency landing in Guam after a cockpit fire is the same model as the Air France plane that crashed last week in the Atlantic

Pohnpei, FSM: The Federated States of Micronesia ( FSM) National Oceanic Resource Management Authority entered into a foreign fishing access agreement with Hai Chan Yang Ltd., a Guam-based fishing company

Washington, USA: The United States acting assistant secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Glyn Davies says the relocation of 8,000 military personnel to Guam will proceed as planned.

Hagatna, Guam: Microcredit programmes throughout the world are a means of giving low-income, even very poor, families a way to earn their own money and work their way out of poverty

Washington, USA: The United States Pacific territories have been allocated US$2.3 million to improve public transport under a provision of the federal stimulus economic recovery package

Hagatna, Guam: Guam business leaders have expressed concern about a proposed increase in the hire fee for foreign workers

Orlando, Florida, USA: The United States has begun operating two types of radar-evading aircraft, a bomber and a fighter, for the first time together in the Pacific